DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Poor Widow’s Faith”: In today’s Gospel Jesus was deeply touched by the poor widow’s great generosity of putting in her two coins. Jesus praised her and said, “she put in everything she possessed”; while others put in “excess money” they had.” Ponder on, “We love God, but do we love our material wealth more than God’s people, who are poor and are suffering”?
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Mark 12:41-44
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the treasury, and many of the rich put in a great deal.
A poor widow came and put in two small coins, the equivalent of a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, this poor widow has put more in than all who have contributed to the treasury; for they have all put in money they had over, but she from the little she had has put in everything she possessed, all she had to live on.’